The Reasons To Attend PHP Conferences

By Brandon Savage on February 4, 2010

Out Of Date Warning

Languages change. Perspectives are different. Ideas move on. This article was published on February 4, 2010 which is more than two years ago. It may be out of date. You should verify that technical information in this article is still current before relying upon it for your own purposes.

Recently, php|architect announced that they were extending the early bird pricing for the TEK-X conference being held this year in Chicago, IL. As someone who has been and will be going this year, this conference represnts a great opportunity for anyone who hasn’t gone to a PHP conference to attend one.

There are some good reasons that you should be attending.

Before I attended a conference, I had no idea what others were thinking with regards to PHP. The first big conference I attended was ZendCon and it was there that I discovered an entire world that I knew nothing about – the greater PHP community. But more than that, I discovered Really Smart People(tm) that I could interact with, be friends with, and who shared my passion for technology.

If you’ve put off attending a PHP conference, or simply are on the fence, you should seriously consider attending TEK-X this year. The conference itself has a great lineup, but I also know several people who are going to be there that are bright, talented and very enthusiastic about the PHP world.

That’s a great reason to go.

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Joel Clermont (@jclermont) wrote at 2/4/2010 8:59 am:

I’ll be at tek-x this year as well. And this will be my first php conference! I’m really looking forward to it, especially getting to know people in the PHP community outside my home town of Milwaukee.

I also considered going to Tek-X, but I just don’t have the budget for it (I’d need to pay travel expenses from the Netherlands to the USA, my stay, the ticket, food and beverages).

I did attend the phpBenelux 2010 conference last weekend, and all I can say is that I recognize every single aspect mentioned in the blogpost plus the fact that conferences do encourage you to try new things. You get pushed in the right direction for things you might or might not have heard about which then seem to be more attractive to implement or much easier than you initially thought.

Also many user groups have meetings which are absolutely free to attend. I would encourage everyone to have a look at those meetings somewhere near you sometime. These meetings have much in common with the conferences and give you a good taste of it.

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Brandon Savage has been a software developer since 2003. Ever since discovering that he could use software to automate routine tasks, he's been hooked. Brandon is passionate about perfecting the art of software development.

Brandon blogs, speaks and writes regularly about software development topics. Brandon works at Mozilla on the Socorro project, working daily to make Firefox better. Brandon is also an instrument rated private pilot and enjoys traveling.

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